Bernardo is a teenager like you, with one difference: he guesses other people's thoughts. Guess which thought he guessed first.
Elisa, Bernardo's teacher, has an old secret. Guess how Bernardo found out.
In the first analysis session with Bernardo, therapist Alceia analyzed him for an hour. Guess what she discovered.
Alex has a strange family story that he has never told anyone. So how did Bernardo know everything?
Miranda, Bernardo's stepfather, is very similar to him. Guess in what way.
Lair not only speaks, but also converses and knows philosophy. Guess who he learned all this from.
When she discovered that See could guess thoughts, her mother, Rúbia, panicked. Guess was the first thing she did.
Have you seen this man before? Bernardo hasn't either. But today he knows that he is a famous writer. Guess which one.
Dani, Ber's girlfriend, lived in a haunted house. What she saw there, you'll never guess...
Therezinha, Bernardo's grandmother, knows all the lives that Lair the parrot has had. She even knows how he learned to talk. Guess how it was.
Teacher Elisa catches Bernardo on the way out for a chat. Guess what he got up to this time.
Edissineias, the school's educational advisor, upon realizing that Ber can guess thoughts, does the last thing anyone would think. Guess what.
D. Neusa, the school principal, takes Bernardo's premonition seriously. She then makes a point of thanking him personally. Guess why.
A BOOK LIKE THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE STORY:
DIFFERENT IN EVERYTHING
Bernardo is a teenager like you, but with one difference: he can guess people’s thoughts.
Unintentionally, he ended up discovering many people’s secrets and his life was turned upside down!
He was marked at school, was canceled on social media and had to seek help.
Read the book The Mind Reader and find out how this story ends.
The book The Mind Reader is part of the #seliga seal, a collection of children’s and young adult books with themes of extreme relevance for Generation Z teenagers.
Book audience: teenage students from 6th to 8th grade
Cross-cutting themes: loneliness, rejection, innovation, unpredictability, diversity, friendship, inclusion and ethics.
Subjects in which the book can be used: Portuguese, writing, English, Spanish, philosophy and arts.
Authors
Sandra Mello
I am a biographer and scriptwriter who is passionate about the life stories of all people.
From writing to writing, I began to enjoy it and wrote letters, poems, cultural projects, marketing plans, books, plays, hundreds of corporate institutional scripts, and more than a dozen biographies.
I was a Portuguese teacher and the students had fun in my classes.
In 2005, I created my content agency, SMA2, which today also houses SMA2 Editora, which specializes in biographies and which I call SelfStory.
Currently, my day-to-day life is divided between the magical realm of make-believe and the hectic reality of a company specialized in various content formats.
Two completely different things, but which give complete meaning to my existence.
Authors
Daniel Funes
I have been writing since I was a student in elementary school. I would write essays at school and my teachers were impressed (or was it disconcerted?) by the crazy ideas I would put on paper.
It was only in 1989 that I began to think of writing as a profession. I took a workshop with the writer Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, one of the best authors in Brazil, and at that time I learned about Loyola’s writing process and that of many other national authors.
My first published book, which has become a rarity today, was “Bawakawa, the book of unviable objects of the future”. The book, released in 1998, earned me two interviews on the Jô Soares program. In 2003, excerpts from this book ended up being purchased by the publisher FTD for inclusion in the textbook Entre Palavras (2006).
Since then, I have published several other fiction and non-fiction books, written scripts for advertising and content, was one of the screenwriters for the show Terça Insana and wrote the feature film “Papai Noel Existe”. In 2022, while studying for a master’s degree in Literature and Literary Criticism at PUC, I began to “study” the teenage reader and decided to write for this audience.
Illustrator
Nill Silva
Guess what I’m going to tell you?
When I was six years old, I realized that I was living with two very different artists, but very similar. Similar because they were brothers. And different in the arts.
While my uncle Geraldo did amateur theater and sang on radio programs, my uncle João was a cartoonist and poster artist.
The aura of this world seduced and abducted me, and I never left it.
Since the first drawings taught by uncle João, I have not stopped looking for other lines, brushstrokes and pen strokes.
I created and drew a weekly children’s supplement for the ValeParaibano newspaper, “O Vale das Crianças”, during the International Year of the Child (1979), a great success in the Vale do Paraíba region. Later, I went on to design (model) children’s shoes at Alpargatas;
With the Mazons, my characters, we created the first 100% computer-colored comic book in Brazil.
I have held individual and collective exhibitions of visual arts (paintings, engravings and drawings); I organized a comic book exhibition with cartoonists from all over Brazil in 2010 and from then on I immersed myself in the publishing world, doing dozens of graphic projects and art direction for novels, children’s books, biographies of personalities and companies.
DIFFERENTIALS
Trilingual edition
Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Perfect for use in bilingual schools.
Interactive, fun reading sheet, unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
FLIM – Printed Reading Sheet.
FLOL – Online Reading Sheet.
SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF ADOPTING THE GUESSMAN IN YOUR SCHOOL:
• Book in three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish).
• Student can study other languages with a 100% national work. (Unprecedented in the Brazilian publishing market!)
• Book with FLIM (Printed Reading Sheet) and FLOL (Online Reading Sheet, an exclusive app from SMA2 Editora.)
• Current context, in addition to cross-cutting themes, which inspire discussions and dynamics in the classroom;
• A controversial central character with skills that set him apart, which opens up space to talk about diversity in the classroom.
• Progressive discounts for schools that adopt the book.
And after the students read it, guess what happens? The school and the students will get an epic bonus!
The authors will go to the school to sign the books and hold a creative workshop in the classroom, using some activities from the reading sheet.
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